Green Monster

Kyle Crockett’s first call-up to the Cleveland Indians on May 16 had that once-in-a-lifetime feeling of joy repeated dozens of times a season at minor-league baseball parks, but which never gets old. As he prepared to step onto the bus for a trip to Erie, Pa., with his teammates on the Class Double-A Akron RubberDucks, his manager, Dave Wallace, called Crockett into his office and told him he was “going up.” Crockett thought for a moment he was headed to Triple-A Columbus before Wallace said, “You’re going to be a major-league pitcher.” Crockett immediately started crying — almost all of them do — then called his dad, Gary, and mom,...

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